Poverty In The Cottage
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I've been invited to a first class dinner, cooked by four accomplished young ladies, and I'm getting hungrier every minute. When I get up in the morning I always say: 'now I won't eat much breakfast because I've got to save room for that dinner'—and then, after all, I don't get invited."
The situation was growing really embarrassing. The girls began to feel that keeping house, not to mention giving dinner parties, with no income whatever, was anything but a joke.